Resources for Abermuds

A partial listing

This is a list of MUD stuff for download that includes MUDs,
MUD add-ons/features, or Telnet clients. It is a continuing work
in progress and is open to submissions, just like the mudlist.
Note that you need a program that handles the many different file
compression formats, such as WinZip (handles more of the PC-based
formats) and PowerZip (handles more of the UNIX formats), which
can be acquired from www.winfiles.com.
It is recommended that an FTP program be used to download .GZ,
.TGZ, and .Z files due to Windows-based browsers not downloading
these file formats properly such as LeechFTP which can be
acquired from this
winfiles directory. Enjoy!

It was suggested I try an FTP search engine to find more
Abermud related stuff (I happened to have used Lycos FTP search
in this case) and came up with a number of sites that were
housing various Abermud source files which I've added below as
"other sites to try" and incidently have the same files
archived under different formats. Some sites do go down over
time. I don't make it a practice to host files locally, but will
if necessary.

Mudlist Client-Server--A
mudlist perl script by Ellyll that generates an info file and an
html file based on information downloaded from a central server.
This script is for those who do not wish to take the time to
maintain their own list of muds.

Abermud Two Update--David Kinder in an attempt to get Abermud 2 to run on a modern Unix OS, did work on the source code and got it to compile.

Abermud 386--here is a later
version of Abermud Two, you should notice some major differences
in this one. Warning, this is a .Z file requiring a different
unzipper. This was a conversion made for SCO-Xenix 386, and will
probably work on SCO-UNIX systems. Alas, the documentation page
has gone away.ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz--another
version of Aber II similar to the previous, dated 1989, half of
it is RCS files (.GZ format).

AberMUD 5.30.0--The
most different looking version of Aber code, Sleepless Nights and
Swords & Sorcery currently run using this code base.
Other sites to try: ftp.funet.fi,
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de,
ftp.gwdg.de,
ftp.sunet.se
(all .Z compressed).Source
Forge--A newer version of Aber 5 is being worked on here,
stored under a CVS tree where you can download the source files,
though it appears work on this has ended entirely.

Old Aber II-IV
Code--this is 1989 version code (so far as the dates of these
files stored are concerned) sitting on this site blood.c,
blood.h, parse.c, bprintf.c is all that's there. blood.c contains
a different fight message generation system, the rest may only be
good for reading. From ftp.sics.se
GZ compressed -- ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp